Buchanan: We need 2 to 6 more votes

House Speaker John Boehner is only two to six votes short of having enough votes to pass his bill to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending, a member of the House GOP said Friday.

Since the vote was called off late Thursday night, “there’s been momentum picked up overnight,” Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), a member of the Ways and Means Committee. “I feel like we’re pretty close. I think we get there. I think it’s important we get there.”

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Buchanan said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he thinks Boehner could get enough votes to make up for the deficit of as many as a dozen votes that he was reported to have Thursday night.

Buchanan said Boehner still needed two to six more votes to pass the bill.

“I’m confident to get it done today, and I’m also confident we are not going home until we get it done,” he said. “And hopefully, by Tuesday, we’ll have this put in place.”

Meanwhile, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that it’s time for Republicans “to come to the table and compromise.”

“Very frankly, an awful lot of people on our side of the aisle think the president and Democrats have gone way too far towards the Republicans already,” he said. “So, you know, we keep moving — every day, every week, every month, and we don’t get there. The Republicans walk out of the room.”

The plan that has the best chance of passing is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.), Hoyer said.

“Any honest observer, very frankly would say the Reid plan” because it would have the support of the Senate Democratic majority. While Hoyer said that means the bill would have 53 votes, that might not be the case since Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has said he will not vote for the Reid plan.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, called on House Republicans to keep working on Boehner’s bill. “There will have to be more compromises and work” to get the votes, he said on MSNBC.

While another Senate Republican, John McCain (R-Ariz.), has criticized the House GOP freshmen and other tea party-affiliated members who have resisted raising the debt ceiling, Sessions wouldn’t.

“I have to admire the new members of the Congress, they were elected in record numbers last fall, and they didn’t come here to do business as usual,” he said. “They want to actually alter this debt course we are on. The reason we are having a fuss over the debt course is the debt. It’s the debt that is endangering America.”